To share or not share? (non-)violence, scarcity and resource access in Somali region, Ethiopia
Abstract: "It is often argued that environmental scarcity was a trigger and source of violent conflict, in particular in African countries. At the root of such arguments is a simple environmental determinism, which understands scarcity as undermining co-operative relationships between competing resource users. Robert Kaplan popularised this thesis in his argument about 'The Coming Anarchy', where he interpreted recent civil wars in Africa as an advent of a fundamental environmental crisis. In our view, this conception disregards the crucial role of local-level institutions in governing competing resource claims. In this paper, we present a case study from the violence-prone Somali Region, Ethiopia. We analyse how agro-pastoralist communities develop sharing arrangements on pasture resources with intruding pastoralist communities in drought years, even though this places additional pressure on their grazing resource. A household survey investigates the determinants for different households in
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Teilen oder nicht teilen? Gewalt(verzicht) und der Zugang zu knappen Rohstoffen in der Somali-Region in Äthiopien
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 28 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources (ICAR) : Discussion Papers ; Bd. 10
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Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2005
- Creator
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Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117404
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 1:53 PM CET
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Associated
- Bogale, Ayalneh
- Korf, Benedikt
- Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Fachgebiet Ressourcenökonomie
Time of origin
- 2005